Below, we continue our overview of Magento 2 themes, and today our attention was captured by Comeback Magento 2.1 theme that contains more than 20 child themes and can be easily adapted for literally every ecommerce website. In the following post, you will find out how core elements of the Magento 2 template looks and feels as well as discover core features of Comeback. Continue Reading
Every ecommerce store has tons of images, since visual content is extremely important for online businesses, as it provides the greatest impression on customers. Furthermore, the lack of photos makes a website look suspicious and unprofessional, so use only high quality content in a reasonable quantity. Unfortunately, you can face a problem when large images slow down the user experience reducing search engine rankings and consequently sales. To avoid this situation, we recommend you install the Image Optimization Magento extension by Extendware. This tool will help you optimize your images reducing their size without sacrificing quality. As a result, the site speed and user experience will be improved but the content quality will remain the same. Continue Reading
Recently, we reviewed the Tier / Customer Group Price Percentages extension that essentially simplifies the way admins work with both tier and customer group prices. The module becomes even more effective in a combination with the Bulk Product Updating addon by Extendware. Therefore, let’s see how the tool works and feels. Continue Reading
If you want to get full control over Magento emails, then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we describe the Amasty Magento 2 SMTP Email Settings extension – one of the most reliable tools for sending emails from a popular local hosting or a custom SMTP server. The full control over email settings is bundled with the ability to run tests before sending out the mail, so you will always know whether your customers and partners receive all the messages you send. Below, we describe the Magento 2 SMTP extension in the closest details.
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Today, we review a handy backend timesaver aimed at a daily routine related to tier prices. After installing the Extendware Tier / Customer Group Price Percentages Magento extension, you will no longer have to spend time constantly updating tier and group prices when a price of a product changes. The process becomes fully automated, since the module applies a percentage of the normal product price. Below, we describe the functionality of the tool in more details. Continue Reading
In the following post, we shed light on how to improve the effectiveness of your product catalog with the help of the Extendware Product Sorting Magento extension. The module helps to increase your current conversion rate by providing customers with the ability to sort products by Most Viewed, Best Sellers, Top Performers, Number of Reviews, etc. Note that in stock items as well as items with images can be shown first. More features are described below. Continue Reading
We’ve reviewed Custom Order Number by Amasty and Order Number Customizer by Xtento, so you may be already familiar with the functionality of this group of extensions. If not, they are designed to add prefixes, suffixes, and post-fixes to order numbers, change the first order number, set a custom increment step, and take the full control over your store numbers related to orders. In addition to the aforementioned tools, we’d like to draw your attention to the Extendware Custom Order Numbers Magento extension, since it is a very reliable solution that suits every ecommerce website. Continue Reading
JavaScript, CSS, and HTML minification is a process that will essentially speed up your ecommerce website. We’ve already described it in our Magento Performance Guide, and today we are going to introduce you to a reliable tool designed to perform the aforementioned actions. In addition to increased productivity, you will also get better search engine site rankings, conversion rate, and user experience. The Extendware Minify JS / CSS / HTML Magento extension achieves this goals by reducing page size, request count, bandwidth, and server load. You only have to install the module and configure a few options. Continue Reading
We’ve already reviewed several reliable abandoned cart Magento extensions – Mirasvit Follow Up Email Extension, Amasty Abandoned Cart Email, and AheadWorks Follow Up Email Module – and today it’s time to pay extra attention to the solution by Extendware. As others, it provides the ability to capture additional sales by emailing customers who have abandoned their shopping carts. Thus, you get a great tool for motivating people return to your ecommerce storefront if they didn’t purchase anything. As a store admin, you are allowed to send an unlimited number of follow-ups. Furthermore, the extension lets you attach an automatically generated coupons to emails in order to incentivize potential buyers recover abandoned carts. Sounds familiar, but don’t jump to conclusions so fast, since below we have a lot of information about the Extendware Abandoned Cart Email Magento extension. Continue Reading
In the following post we review the Full Page Cache Magento extension by Extendware. It is the most popular module produced by the company and at the same time one of the most reliable FPC solutions for Magento. If you are not familiar with this group of extensions, they reduce First Byte Time and database load, increase web server request rate, and make Magento storefronts much more user-friendly. Therefore, Extendware Full Page Cache is a must have Magento module for every successful ecommerce website. Continue Reading
